It took a lot of work at both JPL and HQ to make it happen this year. For relevant, interested folks, please apply! I’m one of the science mentors. Feel free to ask questions!

What’s important is I *found* an email and data file from 2021 and the paper will be done this year! What’s unimportant is the year this project started and how many institutions myself and a coauthor have been at during it! It’s fine!!

Sometimes I rewatch movies and realize “oh thats why I’m that way”: Star Trek VI Undiscovered Country

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Got to write up a short Artemis II explainer for @theconversation.com! (It has been updated per the testing overnight resulting in a launch delay)

Except, you know, nothing is higher stakes than teaching.

This essay is probably already getting ratio’d, but I’d like to join by staring into the camera Office-style from the American Southwest: canals and big roads exist outside of Rome and capital E empires, my buddies!

No one: Me: How many artworks about the Navier-Stokes equations is too many? Other innocent people, just looking for pretty prints, maybe some nice animal linocuts… Me: Let me try to tell you about fluid dynamics and partial differential equations…

Sometimes all you need to see is Jeffery Wright and Daniel Craig in a movie together again

I’m looking for a post doc! Come join us at ASU! apply.interfolio.com/176300

Out now, how salts affect the hydrogen measured from orbit around our main belt icy queen, Ceres. doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

like yes he’ll snap at you if you break his concentration or you’re doing an important job badly; but one thing I think both Rathbone and Cumberbatch leaned on a little too heavily for my liking in different ways is that he was also sometimes a jerk TO THE CLIENT, and that I think I object to

Article. I can read faster than any YouTuber can speak, even with the playback speed cranked up to comical levels. THAT SAID, article writers these days need fucking EDITORS they spend whole paragraphs FAFFING ABOUT before they get to the point IT'S CALLED THE INVERTED FUCKING PYRAMID MY DUDES

Science friends! If you could go back in time and tell your first year self one piece of advice about doing STEM at the graduate level, what would it be?

Lots of love for our new episode and for its subject, Ursula Le Guin. Many thanks to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for his insights and sharing his passion for Earthsea with us (and you). Andy, Una, Tess and Nicky x open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

Glad to hear that Sanctuary Moon is called a planet in its theme song! That alternate future? universe? has the same problems we do with calling everything roughly spherical a planet!

The niche problem of the podcast you’re listening to saying the composter Haydn’s name like the planetarium in NYC, I don’t know podcasts can jump scare you

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The argument here is hilarious, which was when book rate/media mail was invented it was so people could access the dictionary as easily as dirty photos. I’d like to think we’ve moved a little beyond that reasoning, as regardless making education easily accessible is critical to democracy.

What is the impact of the proposed mission terminations and cancellations on Arizona (U of A + ASU) Universities? These charts flag the missions with AZ participation and those impacted.

And most spacecraft science and ops team members were trained on other projects from the ones they’re currently working on—it’s like a community and ecosystem is supported by what is not a huge fraction of the overall federal budget!

I am writing an action packed scene where a graduate student is taking their oral exams in evolutionary biology. ACTION PACKED #amwritingscifi

Just saying AIP could do us a solid and get a reprint of Vera Rubin’s autobiography so we can read her own words about her life and career given today’s events ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997bgdm...

Me to everyone I know this week, trying to be casual: oh heeeey are you watching Murderbot? Here's why you'd love it.

I didn’t buy a coffee table book, given my impending move, I think I deserve a little treat (a paperback)

Dr Mensah trying to navigate between the principles of collective decision making then what to do when it all hits the fan in the field? So good (and that’s just the show not the books)

No matter how scared you are, there’s no reason to damage an archive like this. www.usra.edu/posts/remova...

Once again begging media reports to get the math right. For example, cutting a $5M five-year grant in year 4 isn't saving $1M, but it is wasting the $4M already spent. Stop letting this administration get away with so many lies.

Happy Indie Bookstore Day, please tell your local indoor bookstores that you love them, preferably by purchasing a book

And! Never went to the Vancouver Aquarium on a school field trip again, even though we were so very close to the border, because ~40 people’s passports were far too many even without most of those people being 12 or under

That scientist/history nerd joy when you uncover some primary documents about a potential crater namesake, today brought to you by digitized sorority magazines

The Martian Contingency book tour wraps up on Tuesday, March 25 at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social in Boulder, CO at 6:30 PM MT. Tickets are $5, which gets you a $5 coupon on my new release or any other purchase the day of the event. www.boulderbookstore.net/event/mary-r... @torbooks.bsky.social

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

Figuring out how to do something in space the first time is a heroic undertaking from so many team members. Figuring how to do it again after a generational gap in knowledge?

…and graduate fellowships and undergraduate research funds, too. The technical workforce NASA relies on is the result of decades of investments, and this would stress that pipeline just like an earthquake would.

Vera Rubin’s autobiography is sadly out of print. Maybe it’s time for a publisher to reissue it so she can be read in the original again?

And a corollary: “Hi prof you should be getting an email from the accommodations office”, and “Strong work advocating for yourself and your education!”

Cannot emphasize enough right now that there’s incredible strength in our unions!

Anyone out there want to be a real pal and give time stamps to skip for the extra icky bits? I have a physics and planetary science degree so I love rocks but hands and inside juices are…icky I believe

I am delighted to point you #PlanetaryScience fans to our latest paper, where we used JWST to study the largest low-albedo objects (dare I call them planetary embryos?) in the main asteroid belt. Big thanks to @hbhammel.bsky.social for her years of leadership! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

The CSMA is proud to sponsor a #aas245 special session on the results of the Astronomy Poverty Survey. The panel will report astonishing findings (like the poster below) from the survey's >1000 respondents and describe next steps. The session is Tuesday, Jan 14, at 10am! 🔭🧪 See you there!

Grieving for landscapes doesn’t just have to be for “wilderness” areas—the area where a pipeline blew up in my hometown at least 25 years ago still is visibly different than it was before the event

Deeply funny that I’m writing about vapor diffusion while mitigation is happening for a water main puncture in my condo Can we add some salts to make this happen faster? Or is that just for the ice outside due this Boulder snowstorm?

My dad, a geophysicist, talking about a place in Iceland that has had unusual seismic activity lately: “There was an eruption there quite recently.” Me, not remembering anything on the news about an eruption there, ever: “What do you mean by recently?” Dad: “Sometime in the last ten thousand years.”

Unions, because it’s VERY unlikely three ghosts will appear and scare your boss into doing the right thing.

Wild to be back in my childhood bedroom and noticing that each bookshelf is an era, and one of those eras is "I only want to read American Girl books about other girls west of the Mississippi"

It’s letter of recommendation season, wishing luck to everyone.

Watch out, it’s Yule Lads and the Yule Cat time of year!

Dark academia has it all wrong, my darkest days in academia so far this year have been caused by paperwork and especially standard paperwork in mystery new formats

From my lunch break to yours, if you are a CU Boulder employee please consider writing a letter and signing the petition for fair wages! actionnetwork.org/letters/fair...